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Comment on On This Day In 2011 by Judith Proctor

Judith Proctor — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:02:20 +0000

My daughter is one of the many people who’ve benefited from your site. I gave her the link last year.
Thanks for creating it.

Comment on Free Deed Polls by On This Day In 2011 | Scatmania

On This Day In 2011 | Scatmania — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:01:09 +0000

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Comment on Marks & Spensive by Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:14:52 +0000

For date-y carpet picnic treat food? Absolutely. Some of us just don’t consider a tesco sausage roll to be romantic.

Comment on The Artist by Sian

Sian — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:11:03 +0000

I think I would have had some kind of breakdown if that had happened!

Comment on The Artist by Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:46:35 +0000

Aww! Me too! Spoiler (ROT13: click to decode): V jnf greevsvrq jura ur gbbx gur tha bhg gung ur jnf tbvat gb xvyy gur qbt naq gura uvzfrys!

Comment on The Artist by Sian

Sian — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:44:21 +0000

Totally agree with you – I loved it, really moving. I want Uggie the dog!

Comment on The Nontheist Glossary by Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:06:37 +0000

My point was that people focus on the differences, rather than the similarities all too often. But then I don’t really “get” religion in the first place, so the subtle* differences between Shi’a and Sunni beliefs, for example, are neither here nor there when there’s still the great stumbling block (to me) that is the belief in a god.

* Seriously, people *die* for those differences? I really struggle to understand that. It’s the same god and same prophet, ffs. It’s the same god as the judeo-christian god, and yet wars are still fought along those lines too. That’s far more interesting (and more important to fix!) to me.

Comment on Toggling by Crusty

Crusty — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:35:13 +0000

If I ‘forget’ I’ve locked the chicken up (cos I often do it on autopilot) and go back down the garden later to lock her up, I have occasionally actually ‘let her out’ (even though it’s dark and she’s asleep), then realise what I’ve done and lock her up again! That’s an example of the same thing I suspect. If I’m on auto-pilot going down the garden to ‘sort the chicken’ I unthinkingly toggle between ‘lock the coop if it’s open’ and ‘open the coop if it’s locked’ regardless of what’s actually the appropriate thing to do!

Comment on Toggling by Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:49:54 +0000

I do the same thing in so many video games. I've caught myself out in many games of Ultima VII (one of the computer games that stole my life), accidentally switching from combat mode to friendly mode when I've spotted a distant enemy in a dungeon I've been exploring. And - especially when I'm tired - I've made the same mistake with bathroom lights as you.

Comment on New Computer #2 – Dana by Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:58 +0000

Well-spotted. Yeah, they’re tweaked to individualise them, but they’re not strictly accurate. Yours was supposed to have an external hard drive and some variety of sound hardware, but that’s not necessarily meant to be representative of what’s actually attached: just iconic. It’s more a representation of who you are, to me, than what your computer is equipped with.

Comment on The Nontheist Glossary by Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:46:09 +0000

Sticky, foul-smelling stuff. I don't know why I keep it in the house.

Comment on The Nontheist Glossary by Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:45:22 +0000

Different facets of the same thing? For most people, yes. Although there are those for whom some are true but not others. I’ve always been a secularist, but I’ve never been an apatheist. I’ve only occasionally been antitheistic, but I’ve often considered myself agnostic.

Having a richer shared vocabulary helps us to understand the intricate nuances of one another’s beliefs (or disbeliefs). Which for somebody like me, who’s quite interested in religion and religious belief, is very valuable.

Comment on The Nontheist Glossary by Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:42:23 +0000

Apologies for the delay in replying to this: I’ve been up in Scotland (and then really busy catching up on everything I wasn’t doing while I was up in Scotland!) – blog post to follow, as always.

From this list, I’d identify most closely as an agnostic igtheist secularist skeptic. But that’s all stuff we’ve known for years. More recently, there are clear pantheistic aspects to my experience too. Strange but true.

Comment on Toggling by Godzilla

Godzilla — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:14:05 +0000

Work and college are next door to each other, everytime I get in the car I have to really think about where i’m going otherwise I’ll end up on Sharoe Green Lane!

Comment on Toggling by Claire Q

Claire Q — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:40:58 +0000

One thing I keep doing is trying to lock the door at work with my house key. It’s like I know I have to perform the locking operation, but my brain has associated that too strongly with one particular key.

I definitely toggle the bathroom light – if it’s on, I *always* turn it off as I go in before I can stop myself. Doesn’t seem to happen with other lights. The same phenomenon causes me to neatly put away my weapons just as a bear charges towards me in Skyrim!